Streets of Wicklow 5k, Stephens days!

Timmaay

Hi, My local club, Inbhear Dee AC will be hosting this annual race, in conjunction with the Wicklow Rugby club. Last year the had to be postponed due to the snow and ice, and we had a small enough field when it was eventually rerun. However in years gone past top athletes such as Martin Fagin (course record 14.05!), and our very own Roisin McGettigan. The race has an Athletics Ireland permit, and is held on the streets of Wicklow town. This race always has a very good atmosphere, and is a great way to run off the christmas turkey from the day before! The full details are to follow and will all be up on our website (as soon as I get around to finishing it!)

Timmaay

Ok abit more info on the race! There will be a kids 1mile race at 11am, followed by the 5k at 11.30am. Entry is the low low price of 10euros, enter on the day, no need to pre-enter online, and no hassle of late entry etc. Registration and racestart are at the East Glendalough School, which is near the train station.

Full info will be up very soon on inbheardee.com very soon!

thirstywork2

Love this race,still my 5k road pb

Timmaay

2005 results From all the way back in 2005 ha? You weren't too far off that in the Donore 5k during the summer, time to break it soon again??

Timmaay

Bit more info/Course map etc on the website now http://www.inbheardee.com/Streets_of_Wicklow.html

Facebook event page for it:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=279237035447043

Pronator

Any truth in the rumour (that I've just started) that there is a prize for first home in the "extremely hungover" category?;)

BeepBeep67

Pronator wrote: »

Any truth in the rumour (that I've just started) that there is a prize for first home in the "extremely hungover" category?;)

Haven't heard that one , but there is rumour of beers in Wicklow after the race

Timmaay

Pronator wrote: »

Any truth in the rumour (that I've just started) that there is a prize for first home in the "extremely hungover" category?;)

Hmm that is probably everyone ha, so yeh, its whoever wins the race anyways :P But yeh Beers after sounds like a plan!

Timmaay

Cheeky bump for this thread :P. Many Boardies making the trip down?

Pronator

I'm in. After our club 5k handicap tonight, I think I'll be saving myself for the drinks afterwards;)

gmurran

This was my first 5K I ever did back in 2008. Ran 16:37 that day. Will look to take a minute off that this year. Cant wait

Timmaay

gmurran wrote: »

This was my first 5K I ever did back in 2008. Ran 16:37 that day. Will look to take a minute off that this year. Cant wait

I hope to take well more then a min off my last yrs time!, in fairness I was an unfit mess then ha! I wont be gracing anything near 15.37 next week though, someday though!

BeepBeep67

Went for whiz around the course this evening, Garmin profile here, for those of you into that kinda thing.

gmurran

BeepBeep67 wrote: »

Went for whiz around the course this evening, Garmin profile here, for those of you into that kinda thing.

Nice! that's some hill in the first section. Any team prizes does anyone know? the club website is down right now.

BeepBeep67

gmurran wrote: »

Nice! that's some hill in the first section. Any team prizes does anyone know? the club website is down right now.

Reckon you need to get a head of pace on the first k, not lose too much on the hilly 2nd, take back what you can on the downhill 3rd and then hand on for dear life.
Not sure about team prizes didn't see any listed.

BeepBeep67

Reckon I'll be carrying an extra kilo at least for this tomorrow, time to stop drinking now ~ maybe

Timmaay

At least a kg. I've had a rubbish week training also, so hmm lets not do predictions on times before this race! Or maybe when I'm doing results I'll just subtract 30secs off every1s times, as a xmas weight/hungover handycap time :P!

airscotty

Great race again this morning. Thanks to the organisers.

gmurran

Well done Inbhear Dee AC on a great run this morning. Tough conditions out on parts of the course made the going slow.

Everything was really well organised with great community support. Glad to see this race back on the calendar top marks.

thirstywork2

Tom fitz won from Matthews?Deirdre Byrne run the womens race?

Timmaay

Yep, Tom Fitz 1st, Deirdre didn't run, Womens was won by Roisin McGettigan.

I'm just sorting out the full results now, we had well over 300 in the main race and about 50 kids in the mile race, full results will be up in the next 30mins or so on inbheardee.com

annieee

Timmaay wrote: »

Yep, Tom Fitz 1st, Deirdre didn't run, Womens was won by Roisin McGettigan.

I'm just sorting out the full results now, we had well over 300 in the main race and about 50 kids in the mile race, full results will be up in the next 30mins or so on inbheardee.com

Any results yet?

Great race this morning. Well done to the organisers.

annieee

They're up now!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhUCO20OFBo3dGVDLUdadUJxekdqNWxOZ2NseTVsNnc&hl=en_US#gid=0

Timmaay

Results and a brief race report up on the Inbhear Dee website now! http://www.inbheardee.com/

gmurran

Timmaay wrote: »

At least a kg. I've had a rubbish week training also, so hmm lets not do predictions on times before this race! Or maybe when I'm doing results I'll just subtract 30secs off every1s times, as a xmas weight/hungover handycap time :P!

Where is my 30 seconds:)

BeepBeep67

Good race today, if not a bit blowy, happy with my 17:42 and copious amounts of the black stuff afterwards <hic>